Robin, air pressure -- or the change thereof -- often triggers migraines for me.

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I have a cooking question -- I know my bowls and most of my pots are nonreactive. What is reactive? Not plastic, pyrex, glass, ceramics, stainless steel -- what's left?

Also, why are metal mixing bowls so damned popular? The sound of metal on metal aches my teeth. Oxo has a line of plastic bowls that I like, but I could have bought a dozen sets of metal ones in the time it takes to find each of the Oxo three. Not to mention way too few pyrex ones along the way.

I did finally find cake flour. I needed to be in more expensive stores, it seemed. It would have taken forever to find anyway, if I hadn't been told a) box and b) picture of cake. Because that triggers cake mix for me. Still, it's odd to see so much baking sugar, and so little cake flour.

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Not plastic, pyrex, glass, ceramics, stainless steel -- what's left?

Aluminum. Cast iron, probably.

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Copper. Definitely cast iron - it leaches iron when acid-y things (citrus, tomato) are cooked in it.

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Yeah, aluminum is reactive. I have a bigass aluminum pot, but I don't use it much.

I prefer stainless steel mixing bowls: they're not breakable, but they're more solid and clean better than plastic bowls. My electric mixer comes with glass bowls, and I really don't like them.

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I just got news that a dear friend of mine (who I visited on Sunday) gave birth to a 9lb girl on Tuesday. That's a big girl!

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Still raining down here. What a craptacular day.

Sometimes it switches to a mix of snow and freezing rain/sleet/[something that goes tic tic tic on my windows, but looks like snow]

Also, why are metal mixing bowls so damned popular? The sound of metal on metal aches my teeth. Oxo has a line of plastic bowls that I like, but I could have bought a dozen sets of metal ones in the time it takes to find each of the Oxo three. Not to mention way too few pyrex ones along the way.

I think because plastic bowls sometimes seem to retain a greasy feeling (like if you've had say pasta sauce or something in them). The metal just cleans up better (so better for beating *gg whites, etc.).

And then I got an email and remembered that I'm booked all afternoon for a periodic Buffy Marathon that I completely spaced on.

I need 'Suela's booking people to be my booking people. I'm booked for laundry and cooking, and hiding from the snow.

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I had to get rid of the metal mixing bowls. I'd try and find ways to not use them, just to avoid hearing them touch as I unstacked them.

Glass/pyrex is my preference, but I'm going to make do with the plastic.

I did see metal bowls with rubber on the outside, which'd take the noise away, but they were going for too much.

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I was! Wierd, huh?

Weird, but good.

Yay for ita feeling better, and for her finding cake flour.

I seem to have darkiish brown hair. It's weird. I think it's good, though I think I need to think about it more.

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Those are nice, but yes, expensive. Oh, that page reminds me, I forgot chilling. For making whipped cream, and even pie crust, some people like to chill the bowls, beaters, etc., and the metal bowls chill better. I don't have that noise-squick for most metal on metal, but I have noise squicks and do what I can to avoid them. I am literally shuddering just typing about noise squicks.

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